The People’s Blog

In mid-November our team celebrated work with 100 interns and fellows over the past four years I’ve been in office and the team has been working on behalf of our […]

The Community One Stop for Growth grants for the Fiscal Year 2023 were recently announced. Our district has been awarded a whopping $8.25 million. The Community One Stop grant process […]

The House and Senate reached agreement on $3.76 billion spending package that will help ease the financial strain brought on by challenging economic conditions in Massachusetts and across the [...]

On September 28 more than one thousand people from across the United States with the stated goal to end hunger in the United States by 2030 and tackle preventable, nutrition-related […]

Greetings from your State House, Election Day 2022 and the beginning of the next session (the 193rd session of the Massachusetts Legislature) are fast approaching. This newsletter is packed with [...]

I offered the following remarks at the September 18 celebration of the life and work of Dr. Marty Nathan in Florence:   “Every moment is an organizing opportunity. Every minute […]

The following are remarks I delivered at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation’s first annual symposium on nursing and engineering innovation on September [...]

I offered this reflection at the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy kick off on September 1, 2022. Thank you to the School of Public Policy for inviting me to […]

Written remarks offered at Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s school year kick off on August 29, 2022. (I cut them a bit on the spot for time!) So honored to […]

There is an upcoming opportunity to provide comments about the way the Commonwealth’s public lands are managed.  The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is holding public listening [...]